Due to a large swath of poor management decisions and reneging deals my department has made with management, basically everyone I work with is jumping ship. In 2 months we've lost 10 people, and we cannot find replacements. Management is still not budging, which seems like a weird flex, but ok. It would likely be more, but we're not being paid well enough to just up and quit and still get by [one of the things we're leaving over in the first place].
Anyway, part of my job hunt has been using Indeed. And I'm noticing this bizarre pattern with employers posting jobs – a fucking weird amount of them require that a test be taken and passed before the resume will be viewed. I'm not even opposed to taking a test, in all honesty I think it's a good idea, because a lot more people think they can do the job than actually can. Not a flex, it's monotonous and droning, and it's not exactly easy to keep paying attention when you've been quietly staring at the same screens for 8 hours. But a test before my resume will even be considered? Get fucked, pal. I can understand that an employer wouldn't want to waste their time interviewing a person who doesn't have necessary qualifications or experience, but you can tell that in 20 seconds of reading a resume just as easily as the results of a 20 minute test. I'm looking for work, I don't have fucking time to piss away on a test being a pick-me prole.
As an inconsequential aside, I did get a call from an employer who was apparently struggling to find employees saying they've received my resume, but I hadn't submitted a test, so they were wondering when I'd have that in so they could move forward with the hiring process. I told them everything they need to know is in my resume, and if they have any questions they can ask it in an interview. Did not get the job, but it did feel pretty good to give a corporate-safe “get fucked, pal”.
Fuckin' hard out here already, adding an extra level of annoyance is just dogshit icing on the catshit cake.